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US said it would only accept MDC led government

The United States said it would only accept a Movement for Democratic Change-led government. A ZANU-PF-MDC agreement by itself was not enough.

The United States embassy said this after being briefed by MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai that the three parties -the two MDC factions and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front- had reached an agreement to sign a memorandum of understanding to pave way for talks.

Tsvangirai said that there were three possible scenarios:

A coalition government led by ZANU-PF;

A power-sharing government based on the Kenyan model; and

A transition government led by the MDC.

He was firm that only the third outcome would be acceptable to the MDC but this might well include a role for Robert Mugabe and asked understanding from the international community should that come to pass.

He said General Solomon Mujuru would willingly accept such an outcome because he found Tsvangirai and the MDC more acceptable than Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Mujuru, who has since died, was looking for a way out of the crisis as that would result in an unfreezing of his assets.

Mujuru had told embassy officials that the US had frozen $7 million of his money.

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